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Is it just me, or are there a lot of posts about typefaces on HN front page lately?
by golergka 3y ago
Is it just me, or are there a lot of posts about typefaces on HN front page lately?
- inbx0 3y agoI don't know if it's what's happening here, but it's a common phenomenon in HN that a post starts a trend of posts with a similar theme. People discuss a subject, they post some links to related projects in comments, other people wander into those links and find them or the links that those pages have worthy of their own HN posts.
- squokko 3y agoOverall people in software cannot stop talking about fonts
- giraffe_lady 3y agoWe're in kind of a golden age of font quality and variety, and have widely available screens able to actually show & benefit from the details. It's almost the only fun thing about the current stage of computers/the internet. I think we're also individually creatively starved from a generation+ of dismissing artistic and aesthetic pursuits. It's a socially-acceptable-within-computer-people-society way to acknowledge and participate in the creation of beauty.
- mgaunard 3y agoand yet Arial and Courier New remain the go-to fonts for me.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoAt one time today, there were at least four typeface-related threads on the front page. That seems far outside the average.
- bobbylarrybobby 3y agoI'm goin to guess that the recent Commit Mono post started it, it fizzled out a tad, and the Sweden font post yesterday kicked off some additional interest